Isabel Peron

Isabel Martinez de Peron (4 February 1931-) was President of Argentina from 1 July 1974 to 24 March 1976, succeeding Juan Peron and preceding Jorge Rafael Videla. She was overthrown in a military coup in 1976.

Biography
Maria Estela Martinez Cartas de Peron was born in La Rioja, Argentina in 1931. The third wife of Juan Peron, she met him when she was a nightclub dancer in Panama in 1955. After his 1973 election victory, Peron made her Vice-President, so that upon his death in 1974 she became Latin America's first woman president. Unlike Eva Peron, she was insecure and indecisive. In 1975, the economy went out of control and social unrest grew, so that a military coup became only a question of time. In 1976, she was ousted from power and exiled to Spain in 1981. In 2007, she was arrested by Spanish authorities over her ordering of the Argentine military to take action against "subversives" during the "Dirty War".